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January 8, 2014
January 14 Webinar: Get More Out of MongoDB with TokuMX
MongoDB includes several powerful features like high availability, read scaling, and horizontal scalability in an easy-to-use, schema-free database platform. But, [...]
January 8, 2014
Finding a good IST donor in Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6
Gcache and IST The Gcache is a memory-based cache of recent Galera transactions that is local to each node in [...]
January 7, 2014
Increasing slow MySQL query performance with the parallel query execution
MySQL and Scaling-up (using more powerful hardware) was always a hot topic. Originally MySQL did not scale well with multiple CPUs; [...]
January 6, 2014
The ARCHIVE Storage Engine – does it do what you expect?
Sometimes there is a need for keeping large amounts of old, rarely used data without investing too much on expensive [...]
January 3, 2014
Multiple column index vs multiple indexes with MySQL 5.6
A question often comes when talking about indexing: should we use multiple column indexes or multiple indexes on single columns? Peter [...]
January 2, 2014
How to recover table structure from .frm files with MySQL Utilities
MySQL table structures are stored in .frm files and in the InnoDB Data Dictionary. Sometimes, usually in data recovery issues, [...]
December 30, 2013
Percona Monitoring Plugins 1.1.1 release (enterprise-grade MySQL monitoring and graphing)
Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring Plugins 1.1.1 to address the critical bug that appears after the 1.1 upgrade. [...]
December 30, 2013
[ERROR] mysqld: Sort aborted: Server shutdown in progress
Recently, one of our support customers faced this: “[ERROR] mysqld: Sort aborted: Server shutdown in progress.” At first it would [...]
December 26, 2013
2 cases for MySQL server overload
Your MySQL server is overloaded. You see hundreds of running queries in the SHOW PROCESSLIST taking many seconds to run, [...]
December 24, 2013
Renaming database schema in MySQL
One of the routine tasks for a DBA is MySQL renaming database schemas, and as such MySQL added a command [...]
December 23, 2013
MySQL 5.7.3 milestone release fixes some of my pet peeves
It is wonderful to see some of my original pet peeves fixed in MySQL 5.7.3! It has not even taken [...]
December 20, 2013
Percona Server 5.5.35-33.0 is now available
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.5.35-33.0 on December 20th, 2013 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software [...]
December 20, 2013
Percona Toolkit 2.2.6 is now available
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Toolkit 2.2.6 on December 20th, 2013 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software [...]
December 19, 2013
Automatic replication relaying in Galera 3.x (available with PXC 5.6)
A decade ago MySQL folks were in love with the concept of a relay slave for MySQL high availability across [...]
December 18, 2013
Percona Monitoring Plugins 1.1, now with Zabbix support
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Monitoring Plugins 1.1. The components are designed to integrate seamlessly with [...]
December 18, 2013
Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.15-25.2 first Release Candidate is now available
Percona is glad to announce the first RC release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6 on December 18th, 2013. Binaries are [...]
December 13, 2013
Seconds_Behind_Master fluctuating wildly? Check for events caught in a loop
Recently I was working with a customer where we noticed that Seconds_Behind_Master fluctuating from an expected value of 0 seconds [...]
December 12, 2013
One more InnoDB gap lock to avoid
While troubleshooting deadlocks for a customer, I came around an interesting situation involving InnoDB gap locks. For a non-INSERT write [...]
December 11, 2013
A sneak peek at the Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo 2014
MySQL gurus from Oracle, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Twitter, Yelp (and more) have submitted papers and will speak at the third [...]
December 10, 2013
December 17 Webinar: Use Your MySQL Knowledge to Become a MongoDB Guru
Use your MySQL expertise to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of MongoDB. SPEAKER: Tim Callaghan, VP of Engineering at Tokutek [...]